Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, scarlet sea of flame, hidden below, in the belly of the earth. We never think of it. But what if the thin crust under our feet should turn into glass and we should suddenly see. I became glass. I saw - within myself.
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.
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If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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It's been hard, but I've finally come to the realization that it's okay to not be perfect.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
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If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
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It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, scarlet sea of flame, hidden below, in the belly of the earth. We never think of it. But what if the thin crust under our feet should turn into glass and we should suddenly see. I became glass. I saw - within myself.
